1st Edition
Routledge International Handbook of Heterosexualities Studies
Introduction - Thinking Straightness: An Introduction to Critical Heterosexualities Studies
James Joseph Dean and Nancy L. Fischer
Part 1: Origins, Histories, Theories
1. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Adrienne Cecile Rich
2. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions
Judith Butler
3. The Invention of Heterosexuality
Jonathan Ned Katz
4. Critique of Compulsory Heterosexuality
Steven Seidman
Part 2: Heterosexualities Across the Life Course
5. Normalizing Heterosexuality: Mothers’ Assumptions, Talk, and Strategies with Young Children
Karin A. Martin
6. "Your Father Wouldn’t Like It:" The Social Construction of Heterosexuality in Early Childhood
Emily W. Kane
7. "Coming Out": Gender, (Hetero)Sexuality and the Primary School
Emma Renold
8. The Ambiguity of "Having Sex": The Subjective Experience of Virginity Loss in the United States
Laura M. Carpenter
9. Hooking Up: Hot Heterosex or the New Numb Normative?
Rachel Kalish and Michael Kimmel
10. "Speaking as a Heterosexual": (How) Does Sexuality Matter for Talk-in-Interaction?
Celia Kitzinger
11. A Heterosexual Life: Older Women and Agency within Marriage and the Family
Jenny Hockey, Angela Meah, and Victoria Robinson
Part 3: Straight Identities and Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender
12. Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality
Patricia Hill Collins
13. Displaying Heterosexuality in An Inner City
Carissa M. Froyum
14. Straight Women: Doing and Undoing Compulsory Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted American Culture
James Joseph Dean
15. "Guys are Just Homophobic": Rethinking Adolescent Homophobia and Heterosexuality
C.J. Pascoe
16. "Sprinkle Some Gay on my Straight": Hybrid Hegemonic Masculinities in a Post-Gay Era
Tristan Bridges and Kendell Ota
17. Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: "Gender Normals", Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality
Kristen Schilt and Laurel Westbrook
Part 4: Straight States
18. Introduction to "The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America"
Margot Canaday
19. Uganda’s Anti-homosexuality Bill: Reflections from a Transnational Frame
Marcia Oliver
20. One is not Born a Bride: How Weddings Regulate Heterosexuality
Chrys Ingraham
21. Promoting Marriage for America: The Intimate Relationship Between the State and Heterosexuality
Melanie Heath
Part 5: Rethinking Sexual Fluidity, Straight Privilege, and Allyship
22. Straight Girls Kissing: Heteroflexibility in the College Party Scene
Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor and Janelle M. Pham
23. A Mixed-Method Study of Same-Sex Kissing among College-Attending Heterosexual Men
Eric Anderson and Mark McCormack
24. Bud-Sex: Constructing Normative Masculinity Among Rural Straight Men That Have Sex with Men
Tony Silva
25. ‘Straight with a Pinch of Bi’: The Contours of Male Heteroflexibility
Hector Carrillo and Amanda Hoffman
26. No Homo
Joshua R. Brown
27. "With Allies Like These…": Toward a Sociology of Straight Allies
Patrick R. Grzanka
Biography
James Joseph Dean is Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University in Northern California. He is the author of Straights: Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture (2014). Dean's work has appeared in Contexts, Sexualities, The Sociological Quarterly, and Sociology Compass, among others. His research interests include LGBTQ studies, Critical Heterosexualities Studies, and transgender studies.
Nancy L. Fischer is Associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. Nancy is a co-editor of the anthology Introducing the New Sexuality Studies (along with Steven Seidman). She also edited a special issue on contemporary heterosexuality studies for the journal The Sociological Quarterly. She is a former chair and secretary of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Sexualities. A sociologist with broad interests, she has written about incest, sexual morality, urban sustainability, and the social meaning of second-hand and vintage clothing.
